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East Coast Quake: How Much More Powerful Was March’s Japanese Earthquake?

I would say somewhat more powerful. posted on August 23, 2011 at 6:35pm EDT

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    • sarahb33 thinks East Coast Quake: How Much More Power... is OMG  about a year ago ×
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    • MrSwearword a year ago

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      woah

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      Where’s the “no shit” button?

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      True. People tend to forget that the scale is exponential. 6 is a LOT more than 5. And 9 on the scale is playing in a different league.

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    • ben9mumuzen a year ago

      h8 u new york. git ovr it alrdy.

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    • deaddrift a year ago

      The scale used for large quakes is not usually the Richter but the Moment Magnitude Scale, in which each whole number value is about 32X as powerful as the value below it.

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    • drfeiny a year ago

      geology isn’t my field, but my understanding is that the richter scale is logarithmic.
      therefore, if the japan quake was a 9, and the virginia quake was 5.8, the japanese quake was (10^9)/(10^5.8)=1585x fold bigger.

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    • wickedpissah a year ago

      Fucking Richter Scale. How does it work?

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    • Match Day5 a year ago

      Graphing fail. If the east coast quake is at 0, then 44,688 x 0 is 0.

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    • shrinkage a year ago

      yeah, but they use metric in Japan, don’t they?

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      http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/03/putting-th... [link]

      I’ll just leave this here

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    • Aaron C. a year ago

      That was out in the water too. If something that powerful hit Virginia inland it would’ve torn the state into pieces.

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